Military branches: Hellenic Army, Hellenic Navy, Hellenic Air Force,
Police, National Guard
Military manpower - military age: 21 years of age (2002 est.)
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 2,668,872 (2002 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 2,034,192 (2002 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 77,976 (2002 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $6.12 billion (FY99/00 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 4.91% (FY99/00 est.)
Transnational Issues Greece
Disputes - international: Greece and Turkey have resumed discussions to resolve their complex maritime, air, territorial, and boundary disputes in the Aegean Sea; Cyprus question with Turkey; dispute with The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia over its name
Illicit drugs: a gateway to Europe for traffickers smuggling cannabis and heroin from the Middle East and Southwest Asia to the West and precursor chemicals to the East; some South American cocaine transits or is consumed in Greece